Classical Music/name that tune - ?

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Expert: Pat G - 5/19/2010


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Hello Pat -

I'm afraid this is a plain, elementary question - compared to those you usually get.  Could you please tell me what this piece of music is?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u12YCnvOzI0

Thanks - Mark

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Hello, Mark,

Some "plain, elementary" questions aren't that plain and elementary, but yours is an excerpt from Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, From the New World. The excerpt is also known as "Going Home". Listen to the Largo movement in particular.

Wikipedia has an article on the symphony with sound tracks. I tried copying the link, but it was all garbaged up.

You're welcome.

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I am no longer answering questions asking me to identify music. Most music is either on YouTube, which crashes my browser, or on another site that crashes my browser. I am available for other questions.

Experience

I have been playing piano since I was 3, and I am now 66 years old. I took formal lessons for about 11 years, and took some piano and organ performance courses in college. I also sang in the Masterworks Chorale for a number of years, and can sing anything from baritone to first soprano. We performed twice a year, usually a major choral work, ranging from requiem masses to Carmina Burana. I also attended recorder society meetings once a month. We would read compositions and perform them together. I took several children to their music lessons and rehearsals and usually stayed and watched intensely. Our children studied violin, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, and trombone.

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I studied piano and organ in college, and took courses in music theory. I have also taken seminars in pre-Columbian folk music with Xochimoki, as well as played a short while in a gamelan, and a balalaika orchestra, where I played autoharp.

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